Does FF16 use FF14’s Graphics Engine? Because I’m not a fan of the way it looks..

[Gameovers]

I get that much, I could tell it it was young/ old- but you missed my point: the character design is just weird to me & boring. The anime hair is just bad & looks really stupid; If he is in a guards-Watch: Who has time for hair gel? His design just doesn't bring anything new to the table or fresh really. (I'm not saying other FF characters have had such an appealing look either, aside from Squall Leonhart maybe since he was design from actor River Phoenix) This characters older version just has a larger face i& just a generic face that you'd see on any FF NPC just in higher resolution Yet, there seems to be hardly any detail to him at all aside from the tattoo & really moppy stylized hair- Like "oddly styled anime hair= Check, feminine male face= check, probably something dark/ emo about him= check" Just feels like something that's been done time & time again with Square

Grats, you just noticed SE's artstyle in all of their games. I don't see why thats a problem, SE's default style was never hyper realistic and ugly apparently. They make pretty boys and girls, it's been that way since forever. I just don't see why the artstyle is a problem now when it's been this way forever. It's like saying sonic looks stupid being blue now when he's never not been blue.

[Granyala]

We can kick consoles all we want, the people running PC games on their 2015 laptops are a bigger problem when it comes to holding games like FFXVI back.

While I agree to the market share argument of uber-PC's nit being enough to focus on, I am running XIV on my 2012 Ivy Bridge PC (with a GTX 1070) because ... well right now there isn't much software out there that makes this system seem woefully inadequate.

The days in which games were pushing people to upgrade are long, long over. I still remember feeling the itch after a year because things developed so ridiculously fast and games started already lagging again.

Currently thinking of plopping in a 3080 to get a bit more 4K grunt (since CPU rarely limits in 4K) but a complete system rebuild will have to wait until Intel gets their act back together.

Why for the love of fashion would anyone want to style their hair like this?

Stuck-up much?
It's just hair. *shrug*
He can style it however he wants. I see no issue with it tbh.

Different people like different things, it's matter of taste. As long as the hair is clean and well maintained, I don't care what a person does with it.

[Endeleon]

I'm sick of this. Everyone complaining clearly knows nothing about gamedev because there's not much technology to improve on right now, it's all tiny things like DLSS and 4K. It'll be a while yet until Luminous Engine needs to be replaced.

Also apparently people just can not grasp the concept of a trailer being *gasp* early development.

[Delmontyb]

For a next gen exclusive title (and PC haha) I have to admit I am not impressed with the visuals. FF7 Remake and FF15 looks so much more better in my opinion. I just wondered why they did this, considering Square Enix is HUGE on graphics for single player games.

Then I saw that Yoshida has a major involvement with the game. Then I was like “oh....ok that explains the graphics. he’s made it clear he’s not a fan of pretty graphics.” Not hating, I just personally don’t agree with it. Although I’m sure the story will be amazing. I really like the combat too! It looks like a mixture of devil may cry 5 and FF15!

Question is, does anyone know if FF16 uses Luminous Engine 2.0? (Same one ff14 uses) FF16 looks like FF14 single player mode basically.

Not saying it is, or isn't, but we don't have any announcement if this is in fact a single-player game. I'd assume so too, but just saying.

[Sathona]

For a next gen exclusive title (and PC haha) I have to admit I am not impressed with the visuals. FF7 Remake and FF15 looks so much more better in my opinion. I just wondered why they did this, considering Square Enix is HUGE on graphics for single player games.

Then I saw that Yoshida has a major involvement with the game. Then I was like “oh....ok that explains the graphics. he’s made it clear he’s not a fan of pretty graphics.” Not hating, I just personally don’t agree with it. Although I’m sure the story will be amazing. I really like the combat too! It looks like a mixture of devil may cry 5 and FF15!

Question is, does anyone know if FF16 uses Luminous Engine 2.0? (Same one ff14 uses) FF16 looks like FF14 single player mode basically.

FF7R didnt look good on its first trailers either lol

[Ayuhra]

There's a fair difference between mega resolutions and the gestalts we call "graphics" -- e.g. as a sum of particle drawing systems, how motion blur is handled, antistrophic filtering, ambient occlusion, and so forth, that gives a game it's distinct "style" -- though.

It doesn't take some huge number of polygons or great texture resolutions for a game to click for me, but at the same time much of the parts of a game's "graphics" are inseparable from artistic direction for me, and that will absolutely make or break my investment in a game.

At present, XVI looks mostly like XV to me, but less polished (unsurprising for now, given that it's alpha footage... though even when 15 was XIII-Versus and ran on Crystal Tools, I felt its visual direction clicked). As I'm already not particularly a fan of how Luminous looks in XV, or the limitations of the engine as far as I can guess from XIV, and the lack of polish hits where it matters most to me, the game isn't clicking for me now. But, hey, it's alpha. It's likely been in production for less time than 15 was even just between secrecy and its tentative future as XIII-Versus, still several iterations of development hell before the XV we know today.

It's fair not like the way the game's artistic direction feels. I'm not feeling it either, honestly, but the last (single player) Final Fantasy game I played with art I actually liked was Final Fantasy XII.